Global TV’s strange news priorities
It was a busy news day Sunday so British Columbia's self described source for news, weather, traffic, events and features did not have time to report on the rising tide…
Alberta Liberal Leadership Survey: Bill Harvey
Introduce Yourself (Part I) ] Leadership (Part II) ] Issues: (Part III) ]
Labour Day warning: If you want your union and your rights in the workplace, you’d better be prepared to fight to keep them
Ideal workers, as seen by the Canadian corporate right. Below: Juan Peron, Catherine Swift. This Labour Day in Canada, unions and the fundamental right of working people to be represented…
Don’t judge the world while standing on your head
The Order of BC awards were announced after noon on Friday preceding summer's last long weekend, best day of all for taking out political trash. Apparently, Christy Clark's Government was…
Everybody panic, the OLP platform has just been leaked
First off, I would like to say: Big deal! So the liberal platform has been leaked by probably a conservative mole or some Julian Assange fan boy, but who really…
10 years after 9/11 questions still abound
We're less than a week away from the 10th year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, 10 years since the biggest conspiracy ever. Don't bristle at the use of the word…
Nazi Mom Interviewed on CBC Radio.
We haven't heard much from, "Nazi Mom" in a while now, aside from a single Facebook conversation she participated on. But yesterday we learned that an updated story and interview…
This drama with the Catholic school system reminds me of a Mel Brooks moment
I'm sorry, I just can't help it sometimes.It's probably not the most famous or best-remembered scene from Blazing Saddles (and in truth, it's got a lot of competition), but in…
They’re baaaaak!
27-7 in the Labour Day Classic. Good on ya, boys.
Crimes in progress (another 2010 article brought forward)
News item: British Columbia Liberals announce the new Clean Energy Act sets the foundation for a new future of electricity self-sufficiency. Definition: Self-sufficiency: The ability to satisfy one’s basic needs…
Holding my arms up is challenging
Woof. Sheila and I spent a good chunk of today removing brush and undergrowth from dad’s laneway. With weed whackers. Or whipper snippers. Or weed eaters. Or strimmers. That last…
Precautionary Principle Missing in Protecting Wild Salmon
Alexandra Morton and her small team have had the daunting task of searching through 500,000 documents for the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser sockeye - most of which had only…
Nenshi first Calgary mayor to lead Gay Pride parade
Progressive, decent folks in Toronto are looking west to Calgary today with a bit of envy at news that city's mayor, Naheed Nenshi, led today's Gay Pride parade (pictured).Torontonians hardly…
Migraines
A migraine headache is an intense, throbbing pain on one, or sometimes, both sides of the head. About one in ten Canadians suffer migraines. The gender split is three to…
On ancient history
Remember back when the Harper Cons were able to run roughshod over a weak official opposition party which couldn't muster any allies to fight back against the Cons' smears? Just…
NDP council must decide — what would Jack want?
Actually no. Jack Layton was a great leader but he's gone now. What would work for him will not work for anyone else -- imagine the winner of the election,…
Flash mobs in Aotearoa
How they do “rāhui rangitahi” in New Zealand (my neologism, with a suggestion from twitterer @hinemoana, so aroha mai, apologies, to te tangata whenua!). Worth a rātaki (blogpost), nē? ...
Campbell’s BC Liberals didn’t abandon principles, they never had any
Thomas Paine, a great radical of the 18th-century, inspired both the American and French revolutions and is widely regarded as "possibly the most influential writer in modern human history." He…
Libya Rebel Leader Underscores Our Deep Hypocricy
When it first became clear that NATO actions in Libya were going to far exceed the UN mandate of a no-fly zone to protect civilians and would instead be a…
An Unprecedented Friday Afternoon Document Dump, cont…
A message from BC. Last Friday in BC, Christy Clark announced that there will be no fall election. This amounts to a bloodless Coup of our fair province. Clark has…